I am using the PS3 Media Server and altogether I really love it. Only one thing is a little annoying: I'm not using the PS3 Media Server with a PS3 but with my Samsung TV and with a WDTV Live. They natively can playback almost every format.

So I thought I just add extensions to "Skip transcoding for the following extensions". The problem is that it ignores anything but the very first extension:I tried "mkv, m4v, mp4, avi" and "mkv,m4v,mp4,avi". Both syntaxes did not work. It did not transcode mkv files but other file it transcoded. When I switched mkv with m4v so m4v is in first place it was just the other way round.

I can successfully block a set of extensions from being transcoded, except for avi. No matter where I put avi in the following string, .avi files ALWAYS get transcoded. However, all others in the string get skipped correctly. Why is it only avi in this 'skip transcoding' setting that's being ignored?

mp4,avi,m4v,divx,mkv,flv,mpg,mpeg,mov

My "force transcoding on these file types" setting is empty.

I have the latest build and Mencoder default.

EDIT: My issue above is happening only for the Sony Bravia renderer. AVIs are not being autotranscoded on PS3. Note also that I put some AVIs on a USB stick and plugged it into the Sony Bravia and those AVIs played fine. So it's not a case of the TV not being able to play these AVIs. I also tried altering the Video Settings line for AVIs in the Bravia .config file, but no luck.

Thanks, ConteMario, but there were no spaces in my list of extensions. I even tried moving the "avi" from start to middle to end of the string. With my Sony Bravia as renderer, all other listed extensions were being correctly ignored for auto-transcoding except AVIs.